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Fiat Chrysler Announces Plans To Invest $1 Billion In The U.S.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV will invest $1 billion toward making three new Jeep models in the U.S., plus a Ram heavy-duty pickup now built in Mexico, as President-elect Donald Trump pressures the auto industry to hire workers and produce vehicles…

How Can Trump Stop Companies From Offshoring Jobs
President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll personally call every company in America that plans to ship jobs overseas and ask them to reconsider.
But there are ways to stop American companies from offshoring jobs that don’t involve the U.S.…

Reshoring: More Companies See Advantage to Manufacturing in the USA
It began as a ripple and is becoming a powerful wave. I’m talking about the reverse migration of manufacturing from China to the U.S.A. — known as reshoring — that appears to be gaining momentum.
At first, the evidence was primarily…

Carrier Gets Tax Breaks, But Still Sending 1,300 Jobs To Mexico
Indiana state officials have agreed to give United Technologies Corp. $7 million worth of tax breaks to encourage the company to keep at least 1,069 jobs at its Carrier unit in Indianapolis, Carrier and the state said on Thursday.
President-elect…

Carrier Plant Will Keep Jobs in U.S.A
From the earliest days of his campaign, Donald J. Trump made keeping manufacturing jobs in the United States his signature economic issue, and the decision by Carrier, the big air-conditioner company, to move over 2,000 of them from Indiana…

Trump Supporters Anxious For Jobs To Come Back To USA
By the time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years this month, Paul Roell was already asleep. He did not stay up to see Barack Obama win the presidency in 2008, or watch in 2000 as the margin of votes separating…

Business Booming for Scranton-Based Solar Company
A homegrown way to harness the sun’s energy is gaining traction.
We first told you about a new solar technology developed by an inventor from Scranton more than a year ago.
Something different is breaking up the landscape at Woodland Stables…

Making It In China Is Not The Bargain It Used To Be
I remember when China started being a real threat to U.S. moldmakers and molders in the early to mid-1990s, and all I heard was talk of how cheap China’s labor was and how it would be impossible for U.S. manufacturers to compete. I used to…

15 Facts Showing U.S. Manufacturing is Growing
What do economic growth, global competitive advantage, technological innovation, and high quality of life have in common? None of these would be possible without the manufacturing sector.
As much as we like to say manufacturing is on the…

The Walmart Effect: Store Closures Are Leaving Food Deserts in Their Wake
When and where Sam Walton’s Walmart opened, a slow hollowing out of the town square surely followed. When the Fairfield store opened in 1986, our town square was home to a clothing store, a small department store, a furniture store, a pharmacy,…